Restored with love
"He came home and he said, 'there's a theatre in Old Forge, I want to buy it!' And I said, 'are you crazy?' I ended up going up with him and I fell in love with it, and I said 'okay, let's find a way to do this.'"
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| Restored seats inside the main auditorium of The Strand. Photo: Josh Clement Productions for ANCA.
"Bob and Helen wanted to restore the theatre to its original, 1920s glory. They took out the dropped ceilings in the lobby, painted the auditorium, even had the original seats restored.
"They had to be taken apart, boxed up, and shipped to Virginia. The seats that year went on vacation, and we did not!" "
Bob Card and Helen Zyma in The Strand. Taken in 2017 by Kurt Gardner.
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